Mana ERG

The music of Mana ERG is hard to describe and hard to file, being, as it is, a genre-defying blend of industrial, ethereal, ebm, electronica, and rock elements. It is like an intriguing journey where quiet phrases can at any moment give in to explosive outbursts: clean breakbeats can unexpectedly and immediately be replaced with completely different distorted percussive loops. Processed noise and distorted industrial guitar riffing will abruptly give way to mellow ethereal passages with operatic vocals. While this would normally seem a bit contrived and gimmicky, perhaps being considered an attempt at pretentious experimentalism, it works to the band’s advantage, creating a dizzying and ever-changing experimental yet coherent musical world. The project is the brainchild of Bruno De Angelis, a multi-instrumentalist and former sound engineer, who gained invaluable experience in recording and producing bands playing different genres, while remaining slightly detached from any “fashionable” trend, and always retaining his own distinctive style. Bruno’s closest collaborators through the years have included soprano Deborah Roberts, sound manipulator Antonym, Russian composer Artemiy Artemiev, electronic music guru Dieter Moebius, and Attrition’s mastermind Martin Bowes.